Detectives Investigating Thursday Night Belltown Shooting

Detectives are investigating after a man was shot in Belltown late Thursday night.

Witnesses began calling in reports of shots fired and a person down on the ground at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Bell Street just before 11 pm. Police arrived within two minutes and found the 35-year-old man with a single gunshot wound to the leg. Officers applied a tourniquet to the wounded leg and called for medics.

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